1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2020-611-FA

Identifier 2020-611-FA -- CANCELED
Also known as Seafloor GPS-A Cascadia
Purpose Install 2 GPS-A stations on the seafloor offshore Cascadia to constrain shallow locking along the subduction zone for earthquake hazards
Location Cascadia margin
Summary Work Cancelled due to Covid-19 safety issues
Info derived GPS-A velocities
Comments UW is the lead organization on this cruise, but USGS will be contributing expertise and technical staff Funding is coming from USGS (ESC) and is part of "Enhanced Program Funding" opportunity from CMHRP
Projects
Platform
Sikuliaq
Length 261 feet.
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Seattle, WA 2020-03-21
End Newport, OR 2020-03-28
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West -127.22065867
East -123.07614971
North 48.81229074
South 40.4246496
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Janet Tilden Watt
Crew members
Robert M Wyland
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Robert M Wyland
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal David Schmidt (UW) lead PI Ben Brooks (USGS-ESC) Todd Erickson (USGS-ESC) Tom Parsons (USGS-PCMSC) David Chadwell (Scripps) David Foster (UH)

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: Benchmarks

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
geodetic Benchmarks (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity